An in-game panel for Helldivers 2 that changes the stats of weapons, throwables, stratagems, mechas, attachments and armor passives while you play. Press F8, pick one, and change its numbers. Changes apply at once, are saved, and are applied again automatically every time the game starts. Keep setups as presets: 5 per weapon, and up to 50 named ones for everything you have changed.

Download the latest release · Requires Bingus Shared Loader (v15 or newer)

Weapons: every primary, secondary and support weapon

Beam weapons (Scythe, Dagger, Trident, Laser Cannon, Meltagun) get their damage from their beam, flame weapons (Flamethrower, Torcher, Crisper, Cremator, Sterilizer) from their spray, arc weapons from their arc and melee weapons (Breaching Hammer, Machete, Saber, ...) from their strike; all are fully supported. A flamer's Damage is what each flame hit does.

Burning and gas are shared. "Burning applied per hit" belongs to the weapon; the Burning (or Gas) section below it is the effect itself, shared by every source of it in the game, enemies' fire included. To make one weapon burn harder, raise its own values.

Cool-down time is shown in seconds: how long a full heat bar takes to cool to zero. Setting it sets the cooling rate, so raising the overheat threshold also lengthens it. The Quasar Cannon's recharge is its "cool-down time after overheat".

Throwables: all 23 grenades, knives, throwable mines and the shield, on the Throwables tab

Stratagems

A backpack reads its values when it is called in: edit them, then call in a new one.

How far a Guard Dog flies from you is decided by its behaviour in the game code, not by the data the panel edits, so it can't be changed. The AR-23 dog's bullet is the Liberator Penetrator's and the Hot Dog's flame damage is the Torcher's; the panel notes values that change together.

Mechas: the exosuits, FRVs and tanks, on the Mechas tab

Body parts whose names aren't known show as "Part N". The Breacher's left arm is a shield whose hit is an ability, not a weapon stat, so it has no damage to change.

Attachments: optics, underbarrels, muzzles and ammunition types, on the Attachments tab

An attachment's values apply to every weapon fitted with it (an ammunition type's, to every weapon loaded with it).

Armor passives: all 31, on the Armors tab

Multipliers show as the game stores them: 1 is no change, 0.5 damage taken is 50% resistance, 1.3 reload speed is 30% faster. A passive's values apply to every armor that has it.

1. Install Bingus Shared Loader (v15 or newer).
2. Download SHODAN-Stat-Editor-v2.3.1.zip from the releases page.
3. Install the zip with your Helldivers 2 mod manager, like any other mod package.

Press F8 in game to open or close the panel, or click its X. While it is open the game gets none of your keys or mouse input, so typing never moves you or opens a game menu (this can be turned off in Settings).

Typing values. Click a number (or press Enter on a stat) and type: digits, and "." or "," for decimals. Enter sets it, Esc cancels, and clicking elsewhere also sets it. A value outside what the stat can take is set to the nearest allowed one, and the panel says so.

Every change is saved to

%LOCALAPPDATA%\CowboyBingus\Helldivers2\StatEditor\config.txt

and applied again on every start, a few seconds after launch (on the title screen). Delete a line, or the whole file, to go back to the game's values.

The Settings button at the bottom right of the panel opens its options:

• Open / close key: click it and press the key you want (F1–F12, Insert, Home, End, Pause or Scroll Lock).
• Block game input while open: on by default.
• Apply my changes: turn it off to play with the game's own values; your changes are kept and come back when you turn it on.
• Panel size, side and background opacity.
• Remember last tab and weapon.
• Reset all values: every change of the current setup back to the game's values (asks "Sure?" first; click again to confirm).

The page also has the mod's version, a link to this page and the log file's location.

Click the box under the weapon list (or press Ctrl+F) and type: the list shows the weapons and stratagems of every tab whose name holds all the words typed ("orb las" finds the Orbital Laser). Enter keeps the results; Esc or X clears the search.

Weapon presets. Every weapon and stratagem has 5. Use the PRESETS strip under its stats: pick a number, then Save (its current values), Load or Clear. Numbers in gold hold a preset. Loading one sets the weapon exactly as saved; anything the preset doesn't name goes back to the game's value.

Full presets. Up to 50, on the Presets tab, each with a name you choose and every change you have made.

• + New preset saves your current changes as one, then you type its name (Enter keeps it, Esc cancels).
• Load replaces all current changes with the preset. Save current changes here, Rename and Delete work on the chosen one; overwriting and deleting ask twice.
• Keyboard on that tab: Up/Down choose, Enter loads, Insert makes a new one, Shift+Insert saves into the chosen one, F2 renames, Del deletes.

Presets are saved next to config.txt, as weapon_presets.txt and preset_01.txt … preset_50.txt. A full preset file can be copied into another player's StatEditor folder to share the whole setup.

• Shared values. Some weapons fire the same projectile or share its damage values (for example the Liberator, Liberator Carbine, StA-52 and Stalwart). The panel names the weapons that change along with the one you edit.
• Projectile swap. A weapon firing another weapon's projectile deals that projectile's damage and flies like it; fire rate, ammo and handling stay its own. To tune those shots, edit the other weapon's values (they change for both).
• Variants. Some weapons exist more than once in the game's data (a mounted copy, an underbarrel attachment). The list labels each one, and the panel says which copy you are editing.
• Barrages can use different shells for different rounds; the section names say which rounds a value belongs to. Long lists scroll: Up/Down follow the chosen stat, or use the buttons under the list.
• Your values win over attachments. A weapon's magazine and heat values stay what you set, whichever magazine, heatsink or canister is fitted; what you haven't changed (a magazine's ergonomics, for example) still comes from the attachment. Changing a weapon's ergonomics, sway, recoil or spread also cancels those of the attachments only that weapon uses (its magazines).
• Custom muzzle brakes. Seven weapons come with a muzzle brake of their own (Liberator Penetrator, Pacifier, Coyote, Adjudicator, Tenderizer, Hyena, Diligence Counter Sniper). Each is an entry on the Attachments tab, named after its weapon ("Muzzle brake (Liberator Penetrator)").
• The armory still shows the game's own numbers; the changes apply in play.
• In multiplayer your changes exist only in your game.
• Other mods that change the same stats will fight over them; use one or the other.
• Nothing on disk is modified. The mod changes the game's settings in memory while it runs.

Open an issue and attach the log:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\CowboyBingus\Helldivers2\Logs\SHODANStatEditor.log

The log lists the tables the mod found, every stratagem it listed, and anything it could not match, which is usually enough to find the cause.

• Bingus Shared Loader by CowboyBingus, which runs the mod.
• HD2Runtime by Skyeshade, whose weapon and stratagem catalogs name the weapons and map every strike to its projectiles, blasts and damage.
• Filediver and the helldivers.io data dump by shalzuth, for the game's data layouts and the armor passives.
• The Helldivers 2 wiki, whose passive descriptions name every armor passive value.
• DiverKit and HD2 HUD Plus, which showed where the game's UI font lives.

GNU General Public License v3.0. You can use, change and share it, but anything you distribute that is based on it must also be released under the GPL v3 with its source.

SHODAN Stat Editor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Arrowhead Game Studios or Sony Interactive Entertainment.